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Reuters - Troubled subprime lender New Century
Financial said on Tuesday it had understated debt owed to
Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Capital LLC by $500 million
on Monday. | 2Business |
Reuters - The two astronauts aboard
the International Space Station plan on Wednesday to make their
first space walk since arriving three months ago, leaving the
station unmanned to venture outside and install equipment and
experiments, NASA officials said. | 3Sci/Tech |
( InfoWorld ) - Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) is once again the target of criminal forces in the Internet.
Spam e-mail allegedly sent by the police office is making the rounds in the German-speaking region of Europe. The e-mail contains an attachment with malware that has yet to be classified and is th... | 3Sci/Tech |
A VIRTUAL crime simulator expected to be one of the biggest selling computer games of all time has been hit by techno-pirates. The Edinburgh company Rockstar North has made a fortune from its detailed virtual worlds where crime is the aim of the game. | 3Sci/Tech |
The country has long lagged behind in Olympic sports. And that's why grandmaster Viswanathan Anand is a national hero | 0World |
On the Friday when the late Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat was buried in the courtyard of the Muqata, the media reported that because of the fear of riots, the Israeli government had decided to close the Temple Mount mosques to residents of | 0World |
The Gators are hoping that day comes soon and they can put forth an all-around effort. But in Saturday's 20-3 victory against Kentucky it was the defense that led the way. | 1Sports |
Michael Eisner announced an exit on his own terms, shifting the spotlight from the debate over his leadership to speculation over his successor. | 2Business |
Red Hat is shaking itself up. Will it be for the better? | 3Sci/Tech |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Dell Inc. DELL.O rose 2.3 percent before the bell on Friday after the computer maker said it is a year ahead of schedule in its plan to double its annual revenue to $60 billion. | 2Business |
In the largest explosion, early reports suggested that a truck bomb may have been driven into the Taba Hilton. | 0World |
The tea leaves on Oracle's takeover plans for PeopleSoft have never been harder to read than they are right now. | 3Sci/Tech |
The results fell widely short of Wall Street estimates and the company declined to provide earnings guidance for the next quarter. | 2Business |
Kevin Davies has been told to ward off any suitors and carve out a long-term career at Bolton. The advice comes from manager Sam Allardyce, who is concerned he may eventually lose one of his prize assets. | 1Sports |
AP - The LPGA Tour shortened the rain-soaked NW Arkansas Championship to 18 holes, setting up a bizarre finish Sunday that will be closed to the public. | 1Sports |
Reports emerge of an incident on board a submarine in the Russian Far East in which one sailor was killed. | 0World |
By MATTHEW THOMPSON Seven months after taking over Charleston's cable systems, Suddenlink is announcing rate increases for its customers. | 3Sci/Tech |
An estimated half-million people make a full- or part-time living by auctioning everything from macramé to Maseratis on the Internet. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced Wednesday. | 3Sci/Tech |
AFP - Moscow is "holding direct talks with the leaders of North Korea" to try to prevent Pyongyang carrying out a test of a nuclear weapon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said. | 0World |
French President Jacques Chirac said in a newspaper interview on Tuesday that Britain has gained nothing from its support for the United States-led invasion of Iraq. | 0World |
Officials with Comair Inc. expect the airline to return to a full schedule by the middle of this week, following a computer glitch that grounded about 1,100 flights over the snowy Christmas weekend. | 2Business |
Hundreds of Swedes paused outside a department store Saturday to remember their former foreign minister, a popular politician who was stabbed and killed by a mentally ill man while shopping one year ago. | 0World |
Dozens of players are linked to banned substances, as a report on Major League Baseball alleges a serious drug culture. | 0World |
AFP - Dozens of people across southern Europe perished in a blistering heatwave while storms whipped the north of the continent and floods claimed four lives in Britain. | 3Sci/Tech |
New cordless phones let users of the Internet phone service make calls without a computer. | 3Sci/Tech |
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - US Airways Group Inc. sought bankruptcy on Sunday for the second time in two years, squeezed by low-cost rivals, soaring fuel prices and a failure to win new labor concessions. | 2Business |
AP - Craig Biggio led off the game with his second home run of the postseason and Roger Clemens had a strong beginning, giving the Houston Astros a 2-1 lead over the St. Louis Cardinals after four innings in Game 7 of the NL championship series on Thursday night. | 1Sports |
SAN JOSE, CALIF. - Everywhere you look at the Fall Processor Forum, there's another chip with more than one core. At this annual industry conference where chip companies discuss the designs they're working | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - A group of Russian mothers, desperate for peace in Chechnya, told rebels in the breakaway region Wednesday they were ready to mediate peace between the government and militants fighting a decade-long battle for independence. | 0World |
Ford Motor Co. of Canada's rivals will be watching closely today as the automaker makes a widely-anticipated announcement confirming its plans to build a $1-billion flexible manufacturing plant in Oakville, Ont. | 2Business |
There's plenty of Redskins pride among the Wizards, including the burgundy and gold blood of guard Roger Mason Jr. and coach Eddie Jordan. | 1Sports |
Big Bunt: Jaret Wright shocked everyone Friday night by dropping a bases-loaded bunt in the sixth inning: his manager, the runner at third base -- and the Giants. | 1Sports |
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will propose an easing of rules that will require Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Freddie Mac (FRE. | 2Business |
AP - American Bobby Julich crashed in the Tour de France on Saturday, losing control of his bike while negotiating a bend during the long time trial, and the Tour's news service said he had dropped out of the three-week race. | 1Sports |
LONDON, England -- Arsenal have suffered a major setback ahead of important domestic and European games as defender Sol Campbell has now been ruled out for a further three weeks with an Achilles injury. | 1Sports |
The most primitive bat ever discovered could fly but not navigate by sound, scientists have reported. | 3Sci/Tech |
VIENNA (Reuters) - Former U.N. chief and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, whose career was tainted by disclosures of his Nazi past, was buried in a state funeral on Saturday. | 0World |
Reuters - The proposed takeover of mining firm
Noranda Inc. by a Chinese firm raises concerns not just about
human rights but also about foreign government ownership, a
Canadian cabinet minister said on Friday. | 0World |
SALT LAKE CITY -- Morgan Scalley returned the opening kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown and Alex Smith threw for three TDs and ran 70 yards for another, leading No. 9 Utah past UNLV, 63-28, last night. | 1Sports |
ATHENS (Reuters) - Michael Phelps (U.S.) won the men's 200 meters butterfly swimming gold medal at the Olympics on Tuesday. | 1Sports |
American Eagle Outfitters (AEOS:Nasdaq - news - research) landed spot on third-quarter estimates and boosted fourth-quarter guidance. | 2Business |
AP - Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document. | 0World |
Some of Antarctica's glaciers are melting faster than snow can replace them, enough to raise sea levels measurably, scientists have reported. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - The New York Yankees are trying to break another one of baseball's unwritten rules, the one that says a double-digit deficit on Memorial Day is insurmountable. One game after Alex Rodriguez offended some baseball purists by distracting a fielder during a popup, the Yankees built on that victory by beating the Red ... | 1Sports |
My hands shake, sometimes uncontrollably. It got so bad when I was working for Live Picture back in '97 that I was unable to type. Whenever I held my hands over my keyboard they would bang on it so loudly that my coworkers came to see what the noise was. I feared I would no longer be able to provide for myself ... | 3Sci/Tech |
Strings attached to £4bn bid | 3Sci/Tech |
Talking trash wasn't enough. The Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers decided to trade punches. Less than an hour before Sunday's game, Browns running back William Green and Steelers linebacker Joey Porter | 1Sports |
AFP - With the transfer deadline almost up Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood has urged Ashley Cole to adopt the right attitude if his move to Chelsea falls through. | 0World |
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who dominated Iranian politics for 16 years and tried to improve relations with the United States through a secret arms deal and a lucrative oil development offer, is now the leading candidate to become Iran's next president, according to Iranian politicians and analysts. | 0World |
A provision in the tax bill that Congress passed last week would reduce taxes at two military contractors by nearly $500 million over 10 years. | 2Business |
The Reserve Bank of Australia said there is ``no pressing need'' for higher interest rates ``at this stage'' because the inflation rate has fallen, wage increases are contained and exports | 2Business |
Reuters - The U.S. economy may be in recession,
based on Midwest manufacturing data, a report said on Thursday. | 2Business |
They call it scraping -- when Web companies automatically harvest information from the likes of Yahoo, Google and craigslist. Now the Internet establishment is clamping down. | 2Business |
The word "recall" often conjures images of emptied shelves and store counters piled high with defective or hazardous items brought in by consumers. But the reality is often quite different as the recent recalls of toys, jewelry and cribs show. | 2Business |
AP - Weather around the U.S.A. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK) and
International Business Machines Corp. are recalling
about 526,000 Sony Corp. (6758.T) batteries made for ThinkPad
notebook PCs after a computer caught fire at Los Angeles
International Airport, Lenovo and U.S. safety officials said on
Thursday. | 3Sci/Tech |
India's largest aluminium producer, Hindalco, agrees to buy its US-Canadian rival Novelis for $5.9bn. | 2Business |
AFP - The US spacecraft Dawn, due to launch on Sunday, will take a close look at two massive asteroids to try to penetrate the mystery of our solar system's origins 4.6 billion years ago. | 3Sci/Tech |
It was a record-breaking Sunday for the Eagles, who rode the efforts of quarterback Donovan McNabb, wide receiver Terrell Owens, and running back Brian Westbrook to a resounding 47-17 victory over the Green Bay Packers. | 1Sports |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Struggling apparel giant Gap Inc. said on Thursday that fourth-quarter net profit fell 35 percent on lower or flat sales at its two main casual clothing chains and dependence on holiday season discounts. | 2Business |
USATODAY.com - There's an old parable that goes like this:A man is sentenced to death by the king. In desperation, he asks that his life be spared if he can teach a pig to sing. The king agrees, and gives the man a year. Walking the man back to his cell, a guard comments that it seems like a foolish bargain; he doesn't... | 3Sci/Tech |
The Anesia Smith who is Maryland's starting point guard this season is not the same Anesia Smith who arrived in College Park four years ago. | 1Sports |
A spat that erupted this week between eBay and Google over dueling celebrations might presage more tension in one of the Internet's budding rivalries. | 3Sci/Tech |
Photos of Google China Offices
We’ve dropped by the Google Japan offices in the past, visited the Mountain View Google Plex, and have seen pictures of Google London’s offices, and now Google Blogoscoped points to a collection of Google China office photos from the Peoples Daily Online.
A photo of Google China’s new of... | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - America's first black woman secretary of state took the ceremonial oath of office Friday surrounded by family and friends, some who had traveled from her native Alabama, as well as the president, first lady and a Supreme Court justice. | 0World |
Be honest. One of the most exciting things the National League had going for it the past few years was Barry Bonds. His pursuit of the home run record - and the steroid controversy that followed him everywhere - made for entertaining days and nights across America. With that gone, what does the National League have lef... | 1Sports |
European regulators have cleared the use of mobile phones and BlackBerry devices by airline passengers during flights. | 2Business |
Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira could miss Sundayâs Premiership clash against Manchester United at Old Trafford. Vieira sustained an ankle injury against Aston Villa last weekend and was unable to travel | 1Sports |
MANILA (Dow Jones)--President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Monday caused a stir in local markets by saying the Philippines is in the midst of a "fiscal crisis," but finance | 2Business |
AP - The United States was eliminated from the Copa America when Brazil defeated Ecuador 1-0 and Mexico played a 0-0 tie against Chile on Wednesday night. | 1Sports |
One of The Onionâs earnest-looking everymen turns out to have a real problem. | 0World |
washingtonpost.com - The iPod helped Apple's profit get up and dance. | 3Sci/Tech |
More than 1 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have registered to vote in upcoming municipal and general elections, officials said yesterday, completing | 0World |
Consulting firm reports that about 40 percent of Linux PCs will be modified to run an illegal copy of Windows. | 3Sci/Tech |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc. PFE.N , the world's largest drug company, on Wednesday said fourth-quarter earnings rose, helped by strong sales of cholesterol treatment Lipitor and arthritis drug Celebrex. | 2Business |
Drugstore chain reports lower expenses in first quarter. | 2Business |
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's shaky coalition Tuesday faced collapse in a row over the 2005 budget, raising the prospect of early elections that would endanger his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. | 0World |
With the playoffs less than three weeks away, the Mets may give Orlando Hernández as much time as he needs to make sure he is ready. | 1Sports |
A brilliant stand of 119 between Shoaib Malik and Misbah-ul-Haq helps Pakistan to a six-wicket win over Australia in the World Twenty20. | 0World |
ALDERSON, W.VA. - The food at the Federal Correctons Camp is nothing to write home about - unless one is eating it with Martha Stewart. | 2Business |
Let's face it. Private equity firms hogged the deal-making spotlight in 2007, first with their high-flying buyouts and then with their frantic efforts to salvage them. But corporate acquirers, otherwise known as strategics, weren't exactly on vacation. Just ask Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation pulled off an audac... | 0World |
AP - The Air Force plans to fly planes over Wake Island after Typhoon Ioke passes, to see how much damage the storm inflicted on the mid-Pacific U.S. military refueling outpost. | 3Sci/Tech |
Views you can use to get clues on the news. | 2Business |
ZURICH (Reuters) - New York-based credit card and travel services company American Express is expected to sell its private banking business within weeks, said a source familiar with the matter. | 2Business |
AP - Stormy seas pushed a coal freighter carrying at least 21 Filipino crew members onto a sand bank off Australia's east coast Friday, prompting a major rescue operation and fears of an oil leak. | 0World |
AFP - The US Congress has begun preparing final legislation to give India access to civilian nuclear technology amid concerns that inclusion of sensitive provisions may break the landmark deal. | 0World |
The Issue: Howard Stern deal calls attention to area of unregulated broadcasting. Our View: This may be a significant moment in mass communications. | 2Business |
The Tennessee football alum referred to the personal foul call on Florida in the final seconds of the Vols' dramatic victory over the Gators by saying, "I think (Coach Phillip) Fulmer and that ref went to high school together. | 1Sports |
US allies Britain and Australia on Thursday rejected a claim by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the war in Iraq was ''illegal'' because | 0World |
The Boston Red Sox are gaining ground on the New York Yankees in the AL East, and they're brimming with confidence. "I think we can beat any team right now," outfielder Johnny Damon said after the Red Sox | 1Sports |
AP - A winning kick put the controversy to rest. The Texas Longhorns proved they did indeed belong in the Rose Bowl. Dusty Mangum made a 37-yard field goal as time expired and No. 6 Texas, behind quarterback Vince Young, edged No. 13 Michigan 38-37 Saturday in the first matchup of two of college football's elite progra... | 1Sports |
Views you can use to get clues on tomorrow's news. | 2Business |
LONDON (Reuters) - Nasdaq launched its 2.7 billion pound ($5.3 billion) hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday, appealing directly to investors after being spurned by Europe's biggest stock market. | 2Business |
AFP - The founder of radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam was questioned in Oslo by German police ahead of the arrests in Germany of three men suspected of plotting to attack visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allaiwi. | 0World |
The telephone company reported an 89 percent increase in quarterly profit, aided by an income tax benefit and an increase in high-speed Internet subscribers. | 3Sci/Tech |
He thrilled us with his on screen adventures as the Captain of the space ship USS Enterprise for decades, and now William Shatner has signed up for real life space travel, he has committed a whopping 200,000 dollars to business tycoon Richard Branson, to | 3Sci/Tech |
CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos travels to Tokyo to find out what may soon be on U.S. shelves. | 3Sci/Tech |
A conservation group plans to intersperse redwood clones into the state's old-growth forests, which loggers have reduced to 5 percent of their original range. | 3Sci/Tech |
US Republican presidential hopefuls take part in the latest debate, as late entrant Fred Thompson prepares to declare. | 0World |
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